ALL festival activities scheduled for Saturday, September 7 will take place on Sunday, September 8, due to the rain forecast.
Save the date: September 7th and 8th.
Quartier Greene Fall Festival Schedule of Events
Sunday, September 8th
*Greene Avenue will be closed to traffic from Sherbrooke to de Maisonneuve. The city parking lot will be open but only accessible from the lane off Olivier near de Maisonneuve.
10am to 5pm – Sidewalk sale and promotions by merchants on Greene Ave.
11:00am – 4:00pm Antique Car Show
Quartier Greene Merchant Association are pleased to host Voitures Anciennes du Québec members and their cars, on the temporarily closed portion of Greene Ave from Sherbrooke to DeMaisonneuve. There will be up to 50 antique cars on display – all non-modified and all more than 25 years old – many much older!
During the day there will be music, trophy ceremonies and face painting for the children.
Rain date : September 14, 2024
12pm to 4pm – Cremerie Gelato truck
Westmount Children’s Book Authors – book signing and selling
1:00pm – 3:00pm on Greene near DeMaisonneuve
JUDITH HENDERSON is a children’s content creator and cooks up a lot of stuff. She is an author, illustrator, a composer and has produced children’s television. She also wrote the theme song for the Emmy Award winning PBS show, ARTHUR.
Judith has written over eighteen children’s books, with more on the way! Judith loves dogs, books and coffee, in that order.
ANNE RENAUD is a children’s author who writes in both French and English. Her more than 25 publications feature picture books for kids aged 4 to 8, as well as historical non-fiction books for 9- to 12-year-olds. Her titles include: The Boy who Invented the Popsicle: The Cool Science Behind Frank Epperson’s Famous Frozen Treat, Albertine Petit-Brindamour déteste les choux de Bruxelles, which won the OLA’S Prix Peuplier and the Prix des libraires du Québec, and Mr. Crum’s Potato Predicament, which won the QWF’s Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Anne is also a regular contributor to children’s magazines. She lives and writes in Westmount, Quebec.
Highlighting Montreal Authors 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Linda Leith is the author of eight books, the most recent being The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life (University of Regina Press, 2021). The founder of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival and Artistic Director 1998-2010, she lives in Westmount and is now publisher at Linda Leith Publishing | Linda Leith Editions.
Rebecca Morris is a Montreal writer and teacher whose stories have won the Malahat Review Open Season Award for Fiction and the Humber Literary Review’s Emerging Writers Fiction contest. She is a Banff Centre alumna, recipient of a Canada Council Arts grant and an active member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Her debut novel Other Maps is forthcoming September 14th with Linda Leith Publishing.
Sivan Slapak is a Montreal-based writer. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, Montreal Serai, carte blanche, and collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was a finalist for the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, won the TNQ Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award once, and was shortlisted for it twice. Here Is Still Here, just out with Linda Leith Publishing (Spring 2024), is her first book.
Live Music on Greene
12:00pm – 12:50 Ema Jean – (folk, contemporary jazz originals and covers)
Born and raised by two musicians, Ema Jean has been singing, writing songs and performing for most of her life. She started playing her own music in coffeehouses and dive bars in Montreal as a teenager, releasing her first album, Solace, in 2015. She went on to study vocal jazz at the University of North Texas and the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. Ema lived and honed her craft in Spain for the next 5 years, releasing a wildly popular single in 2018, Telephone Wires, and 2 more albums: Room For Fascination (2019) and Emanuelle Kami (2022). Ema has performed at a plethora of venues including Jamboree (Barcelona), Upstairs (Montreal), Ghost Gallery (Brooklyn) and the Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Art (Seville). She has performed with some of Montreal and Barcelona’s finest contemporary jazz musicians. Ema is currently performing solo in and around Montreal and writing for her next album.
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1:10pm – 2:00pm Rob n’ Cash (country/rock covers)
Rob Brennan is a veteran of the MTL music scene, who has played clubs, corporate and private events, festivals, and studio sessions. This singer/guitarists’ interpretations of old classics to new are sure to please!
Cassius Lobo is a self-taught bass player/vocalist with a wide range of styles, including R&B, rock, country, blues, and pop. His stylistic diversity and vocal capability, coupled with his strong musical instincts and soulful approach enable him to seamlessly blend and compliment Rob in any musical situation.
3:30pm – 4:20pm Crooked Creek (Bluegrass)
Crooked Creek is an up-and-coming bluegrass band based out of Montreal. With individual passions in folk roots, they strive to play shows primarily consisting of original songs with favourite classics in the bluegrass and old-time genre. They released their first self-titled EP in 2021 and are recording a full-length album set to be released in September 2024. The band has performed at Celt Fest in Almonte ON, Bluegrass Mondays at Red Bird Live in Ottawa, Palmer Rapids Festival (2023), Crossover Music Festival in the UK (2023), Tottenham Bluegrass Festival (2024) and around their home town Montreal at Grumpys, Barfly, and the Wheel Club.
Local Artists
The following artists will be showing their works from 10am – 5:00pm
Catherine Benny www.catherinebenny.com
Born in Montreal, Canada, Catherine Benny started painting when her kids were grown. She is an instinctive artist who paints in oil by applying colors directly to the canvas using brushes and palette knifes. Her movement and sensitivity are at the heart of her bright and colorful work. Passion, perseverance and commitment have contributed to her success as a painter. From her nature paintings to her cityscapes, there is a movement and freshness that makes her work interesting and popular.
John Baily https://sketchesbyjbailey.com/greene-avenue/
John Bailey has been drawing and painting watercolors for more than 30 years. He began by taking night classes in the early 1990’s while working full time as a business executive. He previously exhibited in the Victoria Hall Gallery several years ago with his landscape watercolors. Starting in the third wave of the pandemic, his ink and watercolor studies of local Montreal scenes have enjoyed considerable popularity. His art has been featured on CTV News as well as enjoyed by the general public on Facebook Montreal Group Pages. This is the first time his originals have been presented in public.
“My art is a collection of watercolors depicting the ordinary everyday scenes that surround us. It uncovers and accents the beauty they each contain. These paintings often evoke feelings of nostalgia, calm, and even serenity. These reactions all help to better our sense of connecting and belonging to our locales.
My process involves first taking on site photographs which capture the perspectives and lighting that I prefer. I then use these photos to draw the subject in graphite and then select which linework to accent with black ink pens. After that, all graphite lines are erased and then several passes of watercolor are applied. The initial drawing is extremely important. I believe that drawing is the grammar of painting.
My style and subject matter reflect the belief that life is more enjoyable if we can see the beauty of our immediate surroundings. “
Anna Gedalof https://www.annagedalofartist.com
Anna G is a Montreal artist who graduated from McGill University in English literature and then bought a one way ticket to France. She won an art scholarship at Université d’Aix-en-Provence, but chose Paris and La Sorbonne instead, to study art history and cinema.
Upon her return to Montreal in the late seventies, she worked in publishing to promote artists including her husband Bruce Roberts.
She has always continued to do her own artwork underground. Her inspiration is colour, paint, line and gesture where simple objects take on their own life. Somewhere between abstraction and figurative. An amalgam of memory and present observation.
Street Activities/Performers
11:00am to 4pm Children’s face painting with Diva
Children’s face Painting with the fun and talented Diva – back by popular demand! Greene near corner of DeMaissoneuve
11:30am – 2:30pm Zazou
Amazing circus performer Zazou will amaze you with his juggling, acrobatics and much more! Find him performing on Greene Ave.
12:30pm – 2:30pm Mr. Magic
Monsieur Magic is back! He performs skillful sleight of hand and visual comedy illusions close up and on stage. Mind-boggling and colourful tricks with rope, rings, cards and much more! Monsieur Magic – will be up and down Greene Ave.
2:30 – 3:30 Fashion Parade on Greene
Check out fall’s new fashion trends courtesy of the Greene Avenue fashion shops. A parade of fashion up and down Greene to some lively music!
12:30pm – 3:30pm Amanda Dandelion
Circus performer and stilt walker par excellence! Look for her on Greene – just look up!
Activities – Greene Ave
11:00am – 5pm Photo booth fun – take a solo, family or group photo!
11:00am – 5pm Bubble fun- for all ages. Come shower Greene in bubbles with our magic wands!
11:00am – 5pm Doggie Treats and photo booth
11:00am – 5:00pm A variety of games and activities for children and parents on Greene
